Joe Biden is their homeboy

The New York Times, Washington Post and CNN are all sporting the picture above on their home pages. The couple looks happy, rubbing elbows with Joe Biden as if he could be a long time family friend. This however, is not the case. Virginia couple Michaele and Tareq Salahi managed to sneak past the Secret Service Tuesday night at President Obama's first state dinner honoring Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh. The couple even managed to shake hands with the President, an act that prompted the Secret Service to give a formal apology to our nation.

Instead of writing about this breach of security or even why the dinner for Prime Minister Singh was held journalists are writing about how the couple is trying to land a spot on the Bravo network's new show "The Real Housewives of D.C." and filing for bankruptcy in their hometown. Why is it that the news networks focus on the couple rather than the debacle of national security? According to Patterson the media tends to use the game schema more heavily to interpret the world than the people. Journalists tend to look at politics like a game, reporting on different events that help people either "win" or "lose." This event with the Salahi couple is being covered so extensively simply because reporters can comment on the event and use it later when they are deciding who is "in" and who is "out" in the political scene. But some readers are clearly upset about how the media has chosen to cover this. They cry out for explanations as to why the Secret Service could have allowed these uninvited guests to make it all the way to President Obama, but the media hasn't really covered the actual security breach. If most readers are more interested in the failures of our Secret Service than the couple's celebrity status will the news media ever change their ways? Chances are they will not--after all, a story about conflict or entertainment will always capture the attention of public, raising ratings and bringing in the money.